The victory of the Greeks at Salamis was largely due to ______________.
A. a coalition of forces b1y thirty different polis under Spartan direction
B. the superior Athenian army.
C. the so-called wooden walls of the navy
D. Spartan use of helots to fill their ranks
E. Persian desertion of the Emperor Xerxes
Answer: C
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